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'Memorial Day Show' (DJ set)

I will be DJing on Memorial Day (Monday, May 30) at The Lot Radio, 17 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222, from 4–6 p.m. You can listen at thelotradio.com or in person. The venue is an outdoor space accessible to the public every day where you can buy coffee, beer, wine, and snacks. There are plenty of tables and chairs, and an awning to sit in the shade. The state-of-the-art DJ booth is housed in a reclaimed shipping container. The show will be broadcast in high-definition video and sound.

For this photo, I am wearing a black Hanes tee; vintage Craftsman work jeans from an extant Sears in Ocean County; and a portamantas from Versailles, The World's Most Famous Cuban Restaurant®, located in Miami.

Haircut and photo by Van Wifvat.

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24 AGNES HATS (12/24)

The 12th installment of this Agnes de Garron hat series corresponds to today’s 1️⃣2️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ portal. ⛩

The near-year-end portal goes from 12/12 to 12/21/2021, representing a turning point for changes of consciousness and evolution—a gate of energy waves beckoning the joint awakening of the planet and its inhabitants.

This green-vortex hat with a touch of pink complements a meditative state.

Text Agnes at 917-703-1689 to order your very own hat!

Special thanks to Goor Studio for their kind assistance with the photos. Flower tee by Only NY. Necklace by Blue Bayer.

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24 AGNES HATS (1/24)

Agnes de Garron is a performance artist known for her dazzling visual sense. In the course of one performance—which might not last more than five minutes—I have seen her change through what would seem to be more than 30 outfits…pushing and pulling accessories and layers to marvelous transformational effect. A master in the creation of accessories, Agnes started knitting her trademark hats in the 1990s.

I discovered her hats at a gathering of the Radical Faeries in 2008, where she sat on a rocking chair knitting near a shelf displaying her creations. Her pointy, “nippled” hats have become a kind of emblem of this secret society.

The first hat I got, like the model pictured here—which Agnes calls her “Everything” hat—dates from 2008. I love the tendrils which go in all directions. They make me think of antennas that broadcast brainwaves.

And so this 24-day series of Agnes hats takes off. I would like to give special thanks to Goor Studio for their kind assistance with the photos. Flower tee by Only NY. Necklace by Blue Bayer.

Photo by Goor Studio

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24 AGNES HATS (11/24)

I commissioned this Agnes de Garron hat to display a pompom souvenir gifted by painter and sculptor Tom Holmes during one of his exhibitions in the Lower East Side.

Text Agnes at 917-703-1689 to order your very own hat!

Special thanks to Goor Studio for their kind assistance with the photos. Flower tee by Only NY. Necklace by Blue Bayer.

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Mimesis (A Spotify Playlist) [To listen, click HERE]

…or a reflection of the familiar…connected to the subconscious. Echoes of a sound—when swapping occurs, versions are activated within the shell. The essence remains the same…linked to all. Featuring music by Patrick Cowley, Modula, Justus Köhncke, Peter & The Magician, DEVO, LISA, Sparks, The KLF, Virna Lindt, and Lio.

Portrait of Houdini and yours truly by dearest Alexandria Deters—thank you from the bottom of my heart—based on a photo by Dominic Vine which was the cover of my «Walks-Between» playlist, also on Spotify.

Photo by Goor Studio

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LGBTQIA_🎉 (A Spotify Playlist) [To listen, click HERE]

It is with great pleasure that I issue for this festive weekend (during which I define myself as blank-space), a playlist of some of my favorite anthems.

On the cover photo, I am holding a historic 1950s Tepco restaurant mug from Cooper Do-nuts in Los Angeles, the very locale of what is now viewed to be by some historians as the first modern LGBTQIA_🎉 uprising in the United States.

According to the “Cooper Do-nuts Riot” Wikipedia entry:

Cooper Do-nuts was a cafe on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles between two gay bars, Harold's and the Waldorf, and was a popular hangout for gay people. At the time, Los Angeles law made it illegal for a person's gender presentation not to match the gender shown on their ID, and this was often used to target and arrest transgender patrons. For this reason, many gay bars were hostile to transgender patrons and banned or discouraged them from entering.

Cooper Do-nuts was welcoming to the gay community and this made it a target for police harassment. Many LGBT customers had been taken into custody before. Novelist John Rechy, who was present at the riots, described the routine arrests in his 1963 novel, City of Night: ‘They interrogate you, fingerprint you without booking you: an illegal L.A. cop-tactic to scare you from hanging around.’

The playlist features Bronski Beat, Dead or Alive, Freddy Mercury, Azul y Negro, Kraftwerk, Samantha Hudson x La Prohibida, Javiera Mena x Hidrogenesse, Blur, New Order, Fangoria, Klaus Nomi, Phil Oakey x Giorgio Moroder, and Pet Shop Boys.

I would like to dedicate this playlist to Macha Colón, as it has a spirit of Neons Videotheque and the good times we spent there.

Photo: Goor Studio

Hat: @chariandco

Glasses: Sabine B

Location: Lazy Suzy Café

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Printemps (A Spotify Playlist). [To listen click HERE]

Beautiful melodies and airy sounds for Spring 2021...just because...

This playlist songs by Sweet People, Les Rita Mitsouko, Stéphanie, Spandau Ballet, Kylie, Fangoria, Hidrogenesse x Chico Blanco, La Prohibida, Limahl, Dead or Alive, and Pet Shop Boys.

In the photo, I’m holding a @pwrblossom crêpe-paper flower and wearing 32° Cool pajamas.

Photo by Michael Brown

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Ides (A Spotify Playlist). [To listen click HERE]

The new moon in Pisces approaches, in the midst of the Ides of March, the 74th day of the Roman calendar, celebrated with picnics and revelry. Ides marks the occasion—which begins seven days before the 15th or 13th day depending on the specific month—with 69 minutes of music by Guem, Martin Circus, Theo Vaness, Peter Jacques Band, Elias Rahbani and His Orchestra, Lama, Dinosaur, Tantra, and—celebrating her 75th birthday, which is today—Liza Minnelli.

Infamously the date when dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated via 23 stabs, the Ides of March ostensibly marks the date of Mamuralia, a festival of late antiquity celebrated by dressing an old man in animal skins to then be beaten with a stick and driven off town—the spirit of the old year departing…

Last year, the Ides personally kicked off the 2020 Portal, the entry into a time of accelerated evolution of humankind. Planet Earth has already entered the 5th dimension—an awareness of all-being-one. Humanity is invited to follow suit.

Many revelations are to come in this exciting month of March 2021: the Eastern seaboard has already been dazzled with a summer-like week yielding to the wind…

On the cover photos, I am wearing a Blue Cat Family Deluxe Sweatshirt by J. Morrison in front of wallpaper of image prints from his first Homocats fanzine. The photos were taken by the artist at his recent Homocats 10th-anniversary exhibition.

Photos by J. Morrison